This work is considered the maximum expression of Italian #romantic art.
Made during the unification of Italy, Hayez’s “The Kiss” is as engaging as significant because of its many Risorgimento references.

Francesco #Hayez was an artist well known in Milan and as esteemed in patriotic circles as by Giuseppe #Mazzini himself. For this reason, it is not surprising that he was commissioned to carry out on his canvas the feeling of hope towards the alliance that would have given life to the #Nation as we know it.

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‣ The two young people intent on the romantic and #passionate gesture represent the political #ideal of commitment to the homeland as well as the love for it. The mouths that meet seal the union of what becomes the personification of the country

‣ There are four different versions of this painting by the same author. Although the one preserved and exposed to the #Pinacoteca di Brera is the best known, at least two others have their value: one for the white dress of the woman rather than blue and the other for a white cloth lying on the ground next to the couple.

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⇒ Date: 1859

⇒ Material: Oil on canvas

⇒ Dimensions: 110 cm x 88 cm (43 in x 35 in)

⇒ Site: Pinacoteca di brera, Milan